Join Arts In Review host, Gregory Scharpen on Thursday, April 20th @ 12pm to hear an interview with Bay Area author, Jenny Odell.
Odell’s work generally involves acts of close observation, whether it’s birdwatching, collecting screen shots, researching trash, or trying to parse bizarre forms of e-commerce. In general, she is compelled by new frameworks that allow us to perceive something new about everyday reality.
Odell’s, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, was published in 2019, and her second book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, was published this year. You can see her other writing here.
Odell’s visual work has been exhibited at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, the New York Public Library, the Marjorie Barrick Museum (Las Vegas), Les Rencontres D’Arles, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Fotomuseum Winterthur, La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), the Lishui Photography Festival (China), and apexart (NY). She has been an artist in residence at Recology SF (the dump), the San Francisco Planning Department, the Internet Archive, and the Montalvo Arts Center. From 2013 to 2021, she taught digital art at Stanford University.
Photo Credit: Chani-Bockwinkel
